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State-building, expansion and conflict

Civilization: Egypt

Name: Rebekah Schuh


Themes
 How does this theme apply to your civilization?
Political Structures and forms of governance
  • Created states and political centers (*Memphis political center)
  • Pharaohs: absolute power
Empires
  • Unification of upper/lower Egypt
  • Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom
Nations and nationalism
  • Unified Egypt
Revolts and revolutions
  • Frequent territorial wars between Egypt/Nubia
  • Hyksos (claimed authority over all of Egypt; expelled during the New Kingdom)
Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations
  • Expansion all along Nile River and domination of coastal Mediterranean/Red Seas